Deepgram Voice AI incident

Issues with downstream LLM provider in Voice Agent API

Resolved after 6 hours 52 minutes, affecting Voice Agent API, on April 17, 2026.

investigating Apr 18, 2026, 03:48 AM UTC

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Started
Apr 17, 2026, 08:56 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 18, 2026, 03:48 AM UTC
Duration
6h 52m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 17, 2026, 08:56 PM UTC

Affected components

Voice Agent API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 17, 2026, 08:56 PM UTC

    We are currently seeing elevated error rates from OpenAI models. To avoid downtime, please define multiple LLM providers (https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/voice-agent-llm-models#using-multiple-llm-providers) in your Voice Agent configuration.

  2. investigating Apr 18, 2026, 03:48 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. resolved Apr 18, 2026, 03:48 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Your product runs on more than Deepgram Voice AI

Add the vendors you depend on and get one message when any of them reports trouble. Free for 3 vendors, no card.

Add your stack →